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Will El Niño send food prices soaring this summer?
This year’s El Niño is likely to be the strongest on record. That would boost some fruit supplies – but it could also push up wheat, sugar and beef prices.
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3 African wild dogs travelled over 4,000km to find mates – why that’s good news for the endangered species
New GPS tracking on African wild dogs found they could travel long distances to find mates, but more than half did not survive the journey.
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US consumers and businesses are now facing a future of more expensive borrowing
The Federal Reserve’s rate hike comes as the US economy is increasingly moving at two very different speeds.
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How Canada’s immigration caps are trapping its own graduate students
The federal government built an explicit “study-work-stay” pathway that it’s now unraveling through abrupt, poorly-sequenced policy changes.
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Eight rules to help you understand what campaign finance reporting reveals about influence and support – or doesn’t
Campaign spending is confusing, but there are basic rules to help you understand information about money in elections. They can help you determine what is corruption and what is just regular politics.
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Wendell Berry spent his life farming and writing – his legacy is an ethic of care for the natural world
Every reader, farmers and non-farmers alike, can learn from his broader ethics of care, attention and negotiation with the natural world.
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Earthshot and the science of positive tipping points: how environmental progress can become unstoppable
Change happens rapidly when we know where to look: these solutions could tip the world towards a better future.
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Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change
The Fens are a food-growing powerhouse, but the landscape only exists thanks to humans holding back the sea.
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Israel funded the legal assault on Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis
The Zionist Federation of Australia’s legal assault on Israel critic and journalist Mary Kostakidis was financed by the Israeli war machine via the World Zionist Organisation. Michael West Media reports. INVESTIGATION: By Stephanie Tran and Michael West The Zionist Federation of Australia’s chief executive Alon Cassuto has dropped his case against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis,
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The US says it has launched ‘space control weapons’. It plays into the hands of its enemies
This could mark the start of a major arms race in space, which would threaten all of us on Earth.
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Naomi Klein’s new book calls out end times fascism. What is this – and what’s the role of big tech?
Two new books, End Times Fascism and Nerd Reich, take a hard look at fascism today – and its intersections with big tech.
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The government might strip some asylum seekers of their work rights. Here’s why it shouldn’t
The government is reportedly considering restricting the work rights of asylum seekers as part of its plan to decrease migration. But it’s not a good idea.